Valencia (9.05.01). The Valencian Community Foundation "The Light of Images" will be promoting the Segorbe (Castellón) Religious Art Exhibition at the next edition of Expovacaciones, to be held in Bilbao from 17th to 21st May 2001.

This event, which is to be held from September 2001 to March 2002, will tell the story of the diocese of Segorbe, created in the 13th century and one of the most ancient of these in Spain, through its cultural legacy.

The Light of Images stand displays, in a surface area of 30 square metres, the contents to be shown at the exhibition as well as the approach and philosophy implemented at this. The stand also recreates the atmosphere of the different buildings which will become scenarios of the exhibition.

SEGORBE'S "LIGHT OF IMAGES", A NEW, EXTRAORDINARY AND VERY DIFFERENT EXHIBITION

The Valencian Community Foundation's project consists of three exhibitions of religious art, The Light of Images. These exhibitions will be held at the three sees of the dioceses in the Valencian Community: Valencia, Segorbe and Orihuela. Each of these three exhibitions -Segorbe, Orihuela, to be held in 2003 and Valencia, already held - is special, new and different from the others, but all under the same common name -The Light of Images- and the same concept, that of exhibiting the history of a diocese through the historical artistic heritage.

The Light of Images proposes a journey back through time and around Segorbe, recovering the story of the diocese, by means of painting, sculpture, music or precious metal work.

The exhibition gives a view of the historical evolution of Segorbe diocese, one of the most ancient in Spain, from the late 14th century to the early 19th century: the religious, social and human history of a diocese which formed an entity in its own right, as is vouched for by the nearly 600 works catalogued that will be shown in The Light of Images.

The main venue for the exhibition will be Segorbe cathedral and the architectural spaces inside this: the cloister, the Saviour chapel, the chapterhouse, the nave of the church and the choir. Along with the cathedral, other centres will be Saint Martin and Saint Anne's churches and the Seminary. All of these buildings are currently undergoing restoration work so as to be seen in their greatest splendour at the exhibition.

Music is one of the most important disciplines involved in Segorbe's "Light of Images". The exhibition will be placed in its proper setting with pieces from the see itself, from the collection of sheet music kept at the chapterhouse archive recreating each of the periods illustrated by the exhibition.